Visiting alternate timelines in dreams?

[DancingBear]

I have a fairly good memory of my dreams, sometimes remembering multiple dreams a night. And one thing that seems to be happening pretty frequently is dreams that seem like what my life would be like if their was a different choice or choices made by either me or someone in my life that would affect me. I have dreams of vastly different experiences from my own, but these stick out because they seem so similar.

For example, I had one dream where it appeared I didn't move like I did in this life when I was a child. The dream started with me waking up in my childhood house, except I was much older, maybe around the same age I was when I had the dream. Except it seems like I had severely damaged my brain with the use of psychedelics. So much so it was extremely hard to hold a cohesive train of thought for longer than a few seconds. My vision was completely distorted with everything moving like a living Picasso painting, and there were patterns overlaying everything. I was woken up by a family member, and I couldn't even remember what day it was or the fact that I had damaged my brain. I was like a person that forgets what happened a few seconds after the fact. They looked at me with this heartbreaking degree of disappointment, saying that my mom had been waiting for me for a long time in the other room. I couldn't even really function enough to get to her. I became overwhelmed with shame and guilt, and then I woke up.

It appears that by staying in my considerably bad neighborhood and combining the suffering and neglect I had experienced as a child with the bad influences around me, I just wasn't able to cope with my life and resorted to abusing drugs to an extreme level.

And I've several dreams like this, that were similar enough to make it seem entirely plausible that these were views into parallel realities. I feel like there is truth to it right down to my core. And if that's the case, these experiences are overwhelmingly negative. I once had a being (and the method of communication will remain undescribed at this time), that explained to me the nature of parallel universes, and that they exist right outside of our own universal all being connected to each other. And as this being explained this to me, I had several circles start opening up in my vision, as they got larger I saw that they were what looked like mirror images of the room I was currently in. And what it seemed like to me is that the closest realities to our own are extremely similar, with just slight variations which leads to a different outcome. I don't know if there was truth to this experience with objective certainty, but it felt like an extremely intelligent being was conveying this to me in a rudimentary way so that I could slightly comprehend it. Call that being a higher dimensional being, higher self, God, or whatever works for you, but it seemed to speak from the heart.

If this at least a somewhat correct interpretation of these experiences, then I have suffered immensely over many lifetimes, and I would also find it likely that given the life I've had that it was very likely for anything remotely similar to have gone as bad or much worse than my current life has. I'm wondering if this is true, what is the point of showing me this dreams? To let me know that I should be grateful for the way my life has turned out? Or maybe something deeper?

Has anyone had experiences like this?

[baro-san]

It's nice that you can remember so vividly your dreams!

What you describe sounds, to me, like a regular dream of the nightmare kind. This is both from the physical and mental incapacity you described.

There are many hypotheses about "parallel universes", but I believe that most of those who embrace them confuse probable universes with actual universes. Obviously nothing has been proven about "parallel universes", as it is the case with many other non-physical hypotheses.

When you get information from non-physical sources, as the one you mention but don't identify seems to be, you have to be careful that your beliefs will affect what you receive, a lot. That is why there are so many different scenarios about the non-physical, channeled by different honest people. It is striking that although those scenarios are so different, they are so alike when they are described by subjects hypnotized by any given hypnotist, and so in line with that hypnotist's beliefs.

In the same way you describe possible "you" from "parallel universes", others describe "past lives".

Ultimately, what does it mean for you. Does it affect "you" in any way? Can you do something as a result of this information, either for your current life, or for a possible / probable "higher yourself"?

In my experience with regression into the afterlife, when you die you experience something like a waking up, very similar with what you feel when you wake up from a dream now, as a human.